HANGMEN

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Hangmen and Executioners. (1) BULL is the earliest hangman whose name survives (about 1593). (2) JOCK SUTHERLAND. (3) DERRICK, who cut off the head of Essex in 1601. (4) GREGORY. Father and son, mentioned by Sir Walter Scott (1647). (5) GREGORY BRANDON, (about 1648). (6) RICHARD BRANDON, his son, who executed Charles I. (7) SQUIRE DUN, mentioned by Hudibras (part iii. c. 2). (8) JACK KETCH (1678) executed Lord Russell and the Duke of Monmouth. (9) ROSE, the butcher (1686): but Jack Ketch was restored to office the same year. (10) EDWARD DENNIS (1780), introduced as a character in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. (11) THOMAS CHESHIRE, nicknamed "Old Cheese." (12) JOHN CALCRAFT; MARWOOD; BERRY; etc. (13) Of foreign executioners, the most celebrated are Little John; Capeluche, headsman of Paris during the terrible days of the Armagnacs and Burgundians; and the two brothers Sanson, who were executioners during the first French Revolution. Hudibras, under the name of Dun, "personates" Sir Arthur Hazelrig, "the activest" of the five members impeached by King Charles I. The other four were Monk, Walton, Morley, and Alured. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Modern Usage: HANGMEN

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I am not the Jesus of the official church who the police, bankers, judges, hangmen, officers, church bosses and other powerful people tolerate. (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski; writing credit: Aviva Kempner)
Movie/TV Titles	Hangmen Also Die (1943)
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Commercial Usage: HANGMEN

Domain	Title
Books	Hangmen also die (reference) Hangmen of England : a history of execution from Jack Ketch to Albert Pierrepoint (reference) Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind (reference) State Executions Viewed Historically and Sociologically: The Hangmen of England and the Dramaturgy of State Executions (Criminology Law Enforcement) (reference) The common hangman : English and Scottish hangmen before the abolition of public executions (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Hangmen (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Usage Frequency: HANGMEN

"HANGMEN" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HANGMEN" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: HANGMEN

Language		Translations for "HANGMEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Henkers, Henkern. (various references)

Pig Latin		angmenhay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: HANGMEN

Misspellings
	"HANGMEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chengmon, Hagnon, Hanfmann, hangen, hangment, Hingsen, Hodgman, Hoenigman, Hoggman, Hogmen, Hongen, hongmid, Hongwen, Horngren, Ohngren. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: HANGMEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-m-n-n"
	-2 letters: henna, mange.
	-3 letters: ahem, amen, gaen, game, gane, haem, haen, hame, hang, mage, mane, mean, name, nema.
	-4 letters: age, ane, eng, gae, gam, gan, gem, gen, hae, hag, ham, hem, hen, mae, mag, man, meg, men, nae, nag, nah, nam, nan.
	-5 letters: ae, ag, ah, am, an, eh, em, en, ha, he, hm, ma, me, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-m-n-n"
	+2 letters: antheming.
	+4 letters: garnishment, mechanizing, megaphoning, merchanting.
	+5 letters: benchmarking, dehumanizing, garnishments, languishment, longshoreman, rehumanizing.
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